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ND Community Call Data Dashboards: Part 1 September 20, 2012

ND Community Call Data Dashboards: Part 1 September 20, 2012. Dashboards vs. Report Cards. What’s a dashboard?

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ND Community Call Data Dashboards: Part 1 September 20, 2012

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  1. ND Community Call Data Dashboards: Part 1 September 20, 2012

  2. Dashboards vs. Report Cards • What’s a dashboard? • A navigation system that can graphically represent current program performance—highlighting key areas of strength and weakness—as well as predict orforewarnof programs that are not on track to meet program performance goals at a glance

  3. Dashboards vs. Report Cards • What’s a report card? • A concise presentation or snapshot of accountability data and other information about a school or program that assesses or evaluates its performance by focusing on outcomes and drawing comparisons (e.g., across time, across sites, against benchmarks)

  4. Culminating Activity: A Performance Dashboard • How is a dashboard different from a report card? • Both can easily identify programs that are performing well, above expectations, or poorly • A dashboard supports decision-making • A report card supports accountability

  5. Culminating Activity For Discussion: • Are you currently using some sort of dashboard to drive your decision-making and/or technical assistance efforts? • If so, how? What might you change about your current dashboard and why? • If not, what key barriers or challenges prevent your use of dashboards? How might a dashboard inform your work as a Coordinator? • How can dashboards support CQI at the SA and LEA levels? • Are there key indicators that you currently use to flag a program that is in need of targeted technical assistance? • How do you currently determine when to cut off funding?

  6. Essential Steps • Define program priorities • Explore existing data • Map current and potential data sources • Select performance indicators • Set performance targets and threshold criteria • Conceptually group indicators • Design the dashboard interface • Develop the dashboard • Implement the dashboard

  7. Step 1: Define Program Priorities For Discussion: • What are your program priorities and existing and potential data sources? • How do you currently assess these priorities? • What is challenging about assessing these priorities? • How could a data dashboard help you assess these priorities?

  8. Step 2: Explore Existing Data • What story is the data telling you? • What jumps out at you about the graph? • Are the data telling you something that is timely and actionable? • What questions arise? What is the graph not telling you that you wish you knew? • What data could help answer those questions?

  9. Average Daily Enrollment

  10. Average Per Pupil Spending

  11. Demographics: Age

  12. Demographics: Gender

  13. Demographics: Race/Ethnicity

  14. Ratio: Special Education Staff to Youth with IEPs

  15. FTEs by Staffing Function

  16. FTEs by Instructional Area

  17. Academic and Vocational Outcomes

  18. Students Demonstrating Improvement in Reading

  19. Students Demonstrating Improvement in Math

  20. Step 4: Select Performance Indicators • Things to Consider: • Good dashboards need good data; good data is: • accessible • clean • timely • comprehensible • actionable

  21. Step 5: Set Performance Targets and Threshold Criteria • Things to Consider: • In terms of your priorities, where do you want your subgrantees and facilities to be in one year? Two years? Three years? • What performance benchmarks might you set to measure their progress along the way? • How will you know when to target a subgrantee or facility for technical assistance? At what point might you sound the alarm?

  22. Next Steps • For Discussion: • How can NDTAC support your efforts to develop (or refine) and use dashboards? What kind of dashboard activity follow-up would be helpful for you? • What could you reasonably accomplish before our next data dashboard call? • Step 3: Map current and potential data sources? • Step 4: Select performance indicators? • Step 5: Set performance targets and threshold criteria?

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